Had an interesting chat on Twitter with someone who knows "Tjak" as a choral piece by Canadian composer Stephen Hatfield based on something called the Balinese Monkey Chant. Both can been seen on You tube using the search terms Tjak and Balinese Monkey Chant.. unsurprisingly. I feel that the part in the Yoda Chant is closer to the Balinese "original" than to the Hatfield piece anyway, (probably deliberate) but it was interesting to discover it that way. Apologies if you guys all knew all about this already, but I must have missed that memo

I think I had heard about the monkey chant (there's a YouTube video of it from Bali if I'm not mistaken) but I never knew it had been turned into an actual choral piece. Stuff you learn on Twitter! Now, why did I have the impression that something in the Yoda chant came from Cars?

2) Boom shaka laka (what's the best theory of its origin? I favor Muppet Treasure Island myself, especially if you take the "Pork!" interjection to be a reference to Miss Piggy)

3) Homina homina (various origins, may go back to Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden on the Honeymooners, may be from Terry S. Taylor's Neverhood game soundtrack; sticking with cartoons I'm going with the Spongebob theory)